The conference aims at developing a strategy for the co-ordination of culture industries policies. How can the strategies of various political players, e.g. the municipalities, the regions, the member states and the European Union be co-ordinated? Is it possible to develop target-oriented co-ordinated strategies that nevertheless strengthen the heterogeneity and special character of the cultural sectors – sectors that are subject to an extraordinary variety of market laws as their production ranges from the creation of unique specimen to serial production?